This was taken in the Gamble House Gift Shop. It shows the attention to detail of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The exposed joinery on the table is shaped like clovos, decorative nail heads.
I saw this only once before, in Berea, Kentucky, where a fellow had a chair shop. They were more than chairs, each was a work of art. The joinery had the same look--in the chairs the narrow tenons of the leg posts came through the arms and had this same slightly protruding antique nail head look.
The two objects on the table in the picture are glass vases. It looks like the brown one casts a shadow of its swirly lines onto to the table, but that is simply the grain of the table revealed where the light is not glaring.
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